We’ve written about how a bad economy is indeed good for open source software. We’ve also
recognized that with open source software’s maturity and place at
the enterprise software table, a bad economy can be a double-edged sword for open source since the
failure or fade of large enterprise customers, say big banks,
hurts open source vendors right alongside traditional software
providers.

What is interesting is that after a couple of years of economic
rebuilding, we’ve seen recently how open source is being driven by innovation, particularly in cloud
computing, …

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